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Connor
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Jun 15, 2012 08:01AM
I don't know if I'd want to do that... I actually might have something. You guys can just wait and see when I get the masterhead up.
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Connor, I just heard back from the guy (DaniLovesFood) who did the grey "battle" masthead image for his DeviantArt. He said it's fine to use his image so long as (a) you don't make any money of his art (duh) and
(b) you put his name and DeviantArt link on it
Danil Shunkov / Graphics Arts / Netherlands
http://danillovesfood.deviantart.com/
He also has a tumblr (http://danilshunkov.tumblr.com/) with a pretty amazing fake tattooed girl's ass....lots of very nice colors on that ass (haha)
Do you have GIMP or Photoshop or something to add the text to the Masthead or would you like me to do it and email a JPG to you? If you would like me to do it, not a problem. Just give me an email address where to send it. I'll make it as large as he's got available on DA.
-Friday
@phoenicianbooks
Alright, thank you.I do have Gimp so I'll just use that. How do you create a link on pictures? Other than that, I'm good.
Connor asked "How do you create a link on pictures?"It's pretty easy. Start a link with the less than "<" followed by an "a" for the anchor tag then a space and href=" (no spaces between the "href" and the "=" and the opening quote mark) put the URL of the link destination (where you want to send the user when they click, like his DeviantArt link :) and put a closing quote followed by a greater than ">" then NO SPACE (very important) immediately put another "<" followed by "img" and a space then "src=" followed by an opening quote, URL and closing quote then you put a space and if you want to, optionally, set the width of the image, you can put width="123" where you need quote marks around the number, then put another space, a backslash and a greater than "/>" to close the image tag then a less than and a "/a> to close the anchor tag. It'll look like the following, just without the undescores (which I'm adding to prevent Goodreads from parsing the tag HTML:
<_a href="yourURLhere"><_img src="yourImageURLhere" width="123" _/><_/a>
A big key is to make sure there are NO spaces between the >< where the anchor tag ends and image tag starts or vice a versa on the closing end.
Well, can I create it on the masterhead pic itself? Is it fine if I just put the masterhead in the pictures and have the guys name and description there?
Connor wrote: "Well, can I create it on the masterhead pic itself? Is it fine if I just put the masterhead in the pictures and have the guys name and description there?"My advice is edit the image, and add white text with a black outline stroke (1 px) giving the design credit. Just set the text in a line across the bottom of the image, not off to the side, not hidden, but not "in your face" either. Enough it's an obvious image credit without taking away from the quality of the art itself. I'd suggest using his name and his DA URL for the text.
How are things coming on the banner? Anything that I can do to help out?
Connor, you were on this, right? I can also do that little bit of adding text to the graphic if you want. Takes like 2 minutes. Seriously easy.
I'm sorry, I've been really busy. I've been like, dead on this site for two months.
Would you like to do it? I'm getting really confused. :P
Connor wrote: "Would you like to do it? I'm getting really confused. :P"Hi Connor, welcome back :) I've modified the artwork but I don't have access to the group's settings to update the masthead image. Do you want to tell me an email address where I can email the JPG to you for you to upload it as the new group masthead? Do we need to ask one of the other moderators to do the upload? No shame if you don't have time or techieskills to do this, just say so. I have the image. I'm following this thread and can send it within a day of getting an email address.
-Friday
@phoenicianbooks
If you are too busy just let us know Connor and one of us other mods can put it up!
Marjorie wrote: "Connor wrote: "Would you like to do it? I'm getting really confused. :P"Hi Connor, welcome back :) I've modified the artwork but I don't have access to the group's settings to update the masthead..."
Alright thanks! my email is cnote.ck@gmail.com. I'll put it up asap. Thank you :)
LOL!! What size do you need? I'm on right now this second and really, resizing will take me less than 60 seconds
I tried resizing it but it didn't work..It's 970x245
The new masthead looks GREAT! Good job!
Gee, Stefan, I can't imagine how come you're biased LOL :)Connor, looking at the blue avatar next to the grey masthead, I don't see any reason why you need to change the avatar pic. It's a good contrast as it is -- and it ALMOST looks like the guy in the blue avatar (haha) is firing INTO the masthead :)
Haha, ok thanks. I might leave it like that then. Thanks for helping me with it. It does look really awesome!
The masthead really works. Loving it Connor!
Haha, thanks. Marjorie touched it up and edited it so kudos to her too.
